What is Global Assembly Cache ? GAC (Global Assembly Cache) is used to share .NET assemblies. GAC will be used in the below scenarios –
If the multiple application wanted to use the same assembly.
If the assembly has security requirements. For example, if only administrators have the permission to remove the assembly.
What is LINQ to Entities? What is Entity SQL? What is the role of Entity Client Data Provider? LINQ to Entities is a query language which we used to write queries against the object models and the query result will return the entities defined in the Conceptual Model. Entity SQL is a query language is like LINQ to Entities. This is a bit complex compared to LINQ to Entities. A developer who is using this should learn this separately. Responsibility of Entity Client Data Provider is to convert the LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL queries to a SQL query, which is understood by the underlying database. This finally communicates with ADO.NET Data Provider which in turn used to talk to the database.
